Sentences with phrase «frigid surface»

In place of water, however, Titan's frigid surface flows with liquid organic molecules, including methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6).

Unlike the nine other orbiters that NASA has blasted toward Mars over the last 40 years, the MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution — will set its sights on the thin shell of air swirling above the Red Planet's dry and frigid surface.

Spectral data also showed that the apparent lakes seem to be filled with methane and ethane, which would be liquid on Titan's frigid surface.

This is only the second moon in the solar system found ejecting water vapour from its frigid surface.

Their size implies solidity that could only be provided by water ice, which would be hard as rock upon Pluto's frigid surface.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole.

Other scientists are interested in the frigid surface above Vostok, which should serve as an ideal test site for autonomous robots designed to drill on Europa and search for hidden life.

By contrast, the Huygens probe, which the Cassini orbiter dropped onto Titan in 2005, lasted for only about 90 minutes on the moon's frigid surface.

Some of the most stunning images of Saturn's moon Titan are made using a synthetic aperture radar to penetrate the thick atmosphere to see the frigid surface.

Not exact matches

They form during the long, frigid winter nights in the Arctic and Antarctic, up to 15 miles above Earth's surface — high enough to catch a few of the sun's rays even when the surface lies in season - long darkness.

Fairén says there is growing evidence that the harsh environment on the martian surface — a combination of frigid temperatures, caustic chemicals and deadly cosmic radiation — would kill Earth's microbes quickly, especially in the limited numbers that ride along with robots.

The dayside of a planet close to an M dwarf, however, might become so hot that water escapes to space; on the frigid nightside, the atmosphere could freeze to the surface.

At — 397 degrees Fahrenheit, the areas are the coldest places ever measured in the solar system, more frigid even than Pluto's surface.

Water covering the surface interacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in ways that can turn chilly planets frigid and make warm ones even hotter.

Radar images of the moon's surface obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show evidence of volcanic domes, craters, and lavalike flows, probably from a frigid mixture of water and ammonia.

Spitzer was sent so far out because its delicate infrared - sensitive instruments must be kept at a frigid temperature just above absolute zero, and it is easier to maintain that temperature by operating far from the heat that radiates from the surface of our planet.

As of 30 November, worldwide surface temperatures mark 2000 as the fifth - warmest year since 1880, while the United States was headed for an all - time record until a frigid November set in.

A lander called Huygens piggybacked aboard the Cassini mothership, eventually touching down on Titan's frigid, otherworldly surface in January 2005.

This chemical weathering process is too slow to damp out shorter - term fluctuations, and there are some complexities — glaciation can enhance the mechanical erosion that provides surface area for chemical weathering (some of which may be realized after a time delay — ie when the subsequent warming occurs — dramatically snow in a Snowball Earth scenario, where the frigid conditions essentially shut down all chemical weathering, allowing CO2 to build up to the point where it thaws the equatorial region, at which point runaway albedo feedback drives the Earth into a carbonic acid sauna, which ends via rapid carbonate rock formation), while lower sea level may increase the oxidation of organic C in sediments but also provide more land surface for erosion... etc..

Farrow's second Émile Cinq - Mars novel opens with a stunning sequence in which the Montreal police detective finds a body submerged in water beneath a frozen lake, a favorite haunt of ice fisherman: «The circular ice hole was partially filled with water, and a few inches below the surface floated a human head, the long hair beaded with ice, the face plunged down into the frigid lake.»

Polar cooling of the air in winter causes high pressure which sends frigid air north along the surface.

The warmth is eventually diluted into the frigid (3C) abyss by a factor of 10 to 1 (the ratio of cold abyssal water to warm surface water).

IF we had say, a bowl of frigid ocean water — and we immersed a sun warmed rock into that bowl of frigid ocean water, till 70 % of it was covered — then whipped the exposed surface of the rock with air that was many degrees colder than the exposed rock surface --

Jason P. Briner is looking for an answer buried deep in mud dozens of feet below the surface of lakes in the frigid Canadian Arctic.

The oceans are frigid at depth, and the rate at which those cool waters are exposed to the surface is not constant.

«Do you believe a sphere heated to stable temp through illumination in vacuum, can be immersed in a frigid nitrogen / oxygen bath, and have every temperature sensor on it's surface indicate temperature rise of 90F / 30C?

They impede very little energy coming from the sun to the earth's surface but impede a lot of energy going from the earth's surface to the frigid cold of outer space.